BOOM CITIES: URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA CONFERENCE
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI, DOWNTOWN CAMPUS DECEMBER 3 & 4, 2012
MONDAY, DECEMBER 03 | DAY 1
9:00 – 9:30 AM OPENING REMARKS
9:30 – 10:00 AM PRESENTATION OF THE PHOTO EXHIBITION On the Outskirts of Gulf Cities
Photographs by Manuel Benchetrit Text by Roman Stadnicki
10:00 – 10:40 AM Keynote Nelida Fuccaro,School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 11:00 – 1:00 PM PANEL1: Urban Development
Chair Claire Beaugrand, Institut Français du Proche-Orient, Beirut Andrew M. Gardner, University of Puget Sound
The Amalgamated City: Petroleum Wealth and Urban Space in Doha, Qatar Philippe Cadène, Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi
The National Development Plan and the Future of Kuwait City Brigitte Dumortier, Université Paris 4 Sorbonne
Concurrence and/or complementarity between coastal cities in the United Arab Emirates John Burt, New York University Abu Dhabi
The environmental costs of coastal urbanization in the Gulf
2:00 – 4:00 PM PANEL 2: Urban Renewal
Chair Pascal Menoret, New York University Abu Dhabi Atef Alshehri, University of Oxford
Resetting the Urban Clock: Reconfiguring the Sacred City of al-Madina Nadine Scharfenort, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Large-Scale Urban Regeneration: A New Old Market and a “Heart” for Doha Beth Harrington, Northwestern University
Spaces of Culture: The Design and Arrangement of Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island Patrizia Zanelli, LUSPIO University, Rome
Rapid Urbanization in Yemeni Short Stories 6:30 – 8:30 PM PUBLIC LECTURE
Intercontinental Hotel Auditorium
“Where the Sidewalk Ends: Informal Urbanism in Dubai” by Yasser Elsheshtawy, Associate Professor, United Arab Emirates University
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 04 | DAY 2
10:00AM – 12:00 PM PANEL 3: Spatial Politics
Chair Amelie Le Renard,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris Ulrike Freitag, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
Urban Modernization in Jeddah in the late 19th and early 20th century Farah al-Nakib, American University of Kuwait
The Right to the Urban Commons: Public Space and Public Protest in Kuwait, 1938-2012 Sebastian Maisel, Grand Valley State University
Urban development in Unayzah: Where is the Paris of Najd today?
Pascal Menoret, New York University Abu Dhabi Joyriding in Riyadh and the Critique of Urban Space
02:00 – 4:30 PM PANEL 4: Urban Margins
Chair Roman Stadnicki, Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales, Cairo
Claire Beaugrand, Institut Français du Proche-Orient Urban Marginalization in Kuwait and Bahrain
Amelie Le Renard, Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Respectability and Racist Modes of Exclusion in Riyadh: Experiencing the City with Female Filipino Nurses
Magdalena Karolak, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University Bahrain's Parallel Societies: An Analysis of the Urban Landscape Laure Assaf, Paris West University
The Corniche of Abu Dhabi: Public Space and Outdoor Intimacy Amin Moghadam, University of Lyon
Iranian Migrations to Dubai: Transitional Spaces and Practices
4:30 PM Keynote Yasser Elsheshtawy,United Arab Emirates University
